Improved water-closet box



' ttt-ina gaat pme (entre. ALEXANDER E. Muneer, 'oE NEW Yoan, N. Y. Y

Letters Patent N o. 105,116, dated July 5, 1870.

W IMPROVED WATER-CLQSBT BOX.

The Schedule referred to inthese Letters Patent and making part of the lame.

the box there are provided two lugs, C C, inv are formed two holes, c o, the lower portions ofr are enlarged, to allow them to pass over the hea nails driven into a wall or other support, and ther portions are contracted, Vso that, after the head passed and the box dropped, the box cannot be down without rst being lifted, toV allow the enl portionto pass over the heads of thernails.

' It is further provided with a central lng, D, bottom of the rear of the box, .which has a( vertical slot, d, for the reception of a staple wall or other support, such staple being so arr relatively to the nails before' mentioned, as to p the box from being-lifted up and unhung wh lower lug has been secured by a padlock in 't staple. y

Vhen the box is filled with paper, and h and secured, 'as above descrihed,`its baek is cl the wall or other support, and the only acces` paper is through the central .portion of the s this being too narrow to admit of the who being inserted, the only way in which the pa bewithdrawn from the box is by inserting one of the fingers through the wider portion bo or mouth andv pressing them, on` the paper,

To all whom 'it may ooncern:

Beit known that I, ALEXANDER R. MURRAY, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Box for containing Paper for'v Water-Closets, oi 'which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being ha to the accompanying drawing forming part of this specificatioln This invention is more especially designed for use in the water-closets of hotels and other public places, lts object is to prevent the waste of paper by soA retaining it, in sheets of-suitable size, within the box, as to prevent the withdrawal of more than one sheet at a time therefrom, and it consists` in a certain construction of the box, whereby that end is obtained.

In the accompanyingdrawing, which illustrates my 'invention- Figure 1 is a back or rear view of the box;

Figure 2 is a front View of the saine; and

Figure 3 is a central longitudinal section of the same, showing the paper secured therein.

. Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts' in all the-figures.. A Y

A is the box, of cast-iron or other suitable material, of aqnadrangular form in its horizontal section, and of a taper form in, its vertical section. It has its deeper or rear end entirely open, and has at its shallower or front end a horizontal slot, extending across, or nearlyaeross, the box. The endportion a 'a et' thisslo't are oi' sufiicient width to allow v.of a sheet of paper being freely passed therethrough; 'but the said slot is widened at tliejcentral portion b b, Asufficiently to allow of a finger beingpassedthrough it into the box, said widened portion being long enough to permit one, two,

the slot.By this means it is impossible, e case of the .sheets stickingtogether, to draw boxjnore tharnone piece of -paper at a time. What I claim as my invention, and desi cure by Letters Patent, is

Q'Ihe box,'l 1aving av month or opening, a al form substantially as described, and a vpir ranged, relatively to the said mouth, as an ornnore fingers to .be inserted therein. purpose herein'set forth.' 0n. thel bottom ofthe box, near the backthereof', is ALXR'. It; MUZ arranged a pin, B, similar to that of an ordinary paperle, on which the paper E is led in sheets correspond- Witnesses ing in size with the bottom of the box, and thereby. FRED.- Buses,-

' ARTHUR Knmmn.

kept in place. At the top of the open rear end of 

